Overview
Are you passionate about making a positive and lasting difference for people living with a diagnosis of dementia in Hull? Are you interested in working in an ever-evolving service area? Do you want to influence change and policy within adult social care?
Dementia Care Mapper
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Care Quality Dementia Mapping Team.
Purpose of the role
You will be an ambassador for Dementia Care Quality by utilising a Dementia Quality Framework to provide specialist support and advice to providers, their staff, and other professionals on matters relating to the quality of Dementia Care that they deliver. You will use a specialist tool to undertake Dementia Care Mapping to develop bespoke plans of care and support with and for people who are living with a diagnosis of Dementia that are supported by the Council's commissioned Social Care Providers. You will work directly with people and their families, providers and a range of internal and external partners, empowering them to deliver the best possible outcomes for people living with Dementia by creating a positive Adult Social Care culture that ensures that excellence in quality Dementia care and support is always championed. The role focuses on dementia quality assessments and Dementia Care Mapping in Residential & Nursing, Home Care, Extra Care, Supported Living and Day Opportunities settings. You will be an integral part of a unique, specialist and critical function within ASC and lead on assessing and monitoring the Dementia Care quality delivered by commissioned providers and matters relating to people living with Dementia that are supported by commissioned providers. You will lead on person-centred values and innovative practices ensuring that people living with Dementia access services receive the best possible outcomes, and that providers consistently deliver high quality Dementia care and support to meet the needs of the people they are responsible for. You will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team working with Contract & Care Quality Assurance Team, Social Work Teams, Safeguarding, Health Colleagues, professionals and partners to provide a Dementia care quality and mapping service to people supported by commissioned providers across the city who are living with a diagnosis of Dementia. You will have specialist skills and qualifications in observing best practice and be able to develop bespoke action plans to ensure providers understand and are able to identify people’s unmet needs and how to meet these in the future. You will be experienced and confident in using professional judgement and evidence-based approaches to compile complex and comprehensive mapping and quality reports regarding people’s care and support needs and quality of Dementia care delivered, and present these to professionals and providers in a way that facilitates supportive engagement and commitment to achieving people’s individual outcomes and overall continuous service improvements. You will support an integrated approach to working closely with Adult Safeguarding, CHCP, Humber Teaching Trust, Alzheimer's Society, GPs, Social Workers, Frailty Team, and YAS to maintain significant input and contribute to people’s safety, health & wellbeing and their care and support planning. You will build positive and constructive relationships with providers to co-produce care and support plans and action plans, taking on a professional role with responsibility for mentoring staff and the implementation and review of innovative approaches in the delivery of care and support that people receive to achieve their individual goals in a safe and person-centred way.
Qualifications
* GCSE Grade C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent)
* Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent
* A qualification in Dementia Care Mapping is desirable; full training will be provided to the successful candidate
Additional information
This role is not available for sponsorship and is therefore only open to applicants who have the right to work in the UK.
Disability Confident
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